The antisemitism inquiry calls for a change of culture in Labour. To do this, the party must confront its complicated legacy
Jeremy Corbyn’s defiant response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission report into antisemitism in the Labour party has conjured a tempest.
The report was a vindication for those who struggled to combat antisemitism in Labour and to expose the party’s ongoing failure to confront it effectively. At the same time, the decision to suspend Corbyn has brought dismay to his supporters, many of whom see him as Labour’s most anti-racist leader. These divergent reactions provide an echo of something familiar: the gulf between large parts of the anti-racist left and those forces, inside and outside Labour, who have prosecuted the fight against antisemitism.
